Sale: CNG 61, Lot: 2165. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2002.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANIC TRIBES, Rhine region. Anonymous issue, Imitating Theodosius II. After 450 AD. AV Solidus (4.50 gm). DVIVLOOO-SPSVVAG, helmeted facing bust with shield at shoulder, spear over opposite shoulder / PIOXXTDSPO-+SOVTXXXXÐ, Constantinopolis enthroned left holding globus and spear; star and pellet in left field /obobo in exergue. Fagerlie ANSNNM 157 343, 349 var. (legends); cf. Depeyrot 84/1 (prototype). EF, gouge across eye. Extremely rare. ($1000)

Ex Dürr and Michel Auction, Geneva (8 November 1999), lot 372.